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A63830 Iehovah Iireh merito audiens, præco evangelicus An angell from heaven, or, An ambassadour for Christ, descending from God, ascending unto God, lawfully dignified, compleately qualified : heard (vvith religious devotion) reporting his ambassage to the honourable societies of the Inner and Middle Temples, on Sunday the eleventh day of December, 1642 ... / by Edw. Tuke. Tuke, Edward. 1642 (1642) Wing T3224; ESTC R10730 21,383 28

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